Laurie's January Cure: My First Week — January Cure Diaries

When I told my parents that I was doing Apartment Therapy's January Cure , they suggested I move my project to their basement — where the dark truth behind my seemingly organized New York City apartment lives. In this large, suburban storage room, relics of my college student/single girl in New York/newly married woman life are preserved with the stratigraphic precision of an archaeological site. Every two feet into the storage room represents a year back in time. If you walk ten feet into the room, for example, you can see the year I met my husband; this place marks the appearance of a retired decor that would be at home in any charming bachelor pad/brothel. More